Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sergei Korokov and his wife, Natasha, lived in a Russian village that was overrun by the Nazi Army. Sergei got orders to join the local force of Russian guerrillas. Escaping from his village, he killed a Nazi sentry, "felt the blade sink downward easily." To reach the guerrillas he had to shoot one German ("his body . . . rolled silently"), then-another ("his body crumpled...
...open road for the German armies. The Nazis might be pulling back in the Caucasus, building up their stores in the Balkans for a sudden blow through Turkey-but the British also had strengthened their forces in the Middle East, and the Germans no longer had the lower blade of their pincers in Egypt. The Allied occupation of French North Africa left the Germans almost no chance to close the Mediterranean by seizing Gibraltar, as they once had planned. The pincers had been turned upon Hitler...
When Sumner Welles thrust a cool, straight blade at Argentina and Chile last fortnight for tolerating Axis spies (TIME, Oct. 19), he must have expected resentful parrying by the Governments of those countries...
...Gordian knot of manpower allocation is as tight as ever. President Roosevelt has sharpened the blade, but the actual cutting is yet to be done...
...windproof cigaret lighter gets a swell rating from 55% of the Army and 63% of the Navy (but fluid is not mailable). Other favorites: cigarets, leather wallets with insignia on them, pen & pencil sets, stationery, polarized sun glasses. The boys even want shoe brushes and razor-blade sharpeners. Special Army favorites: good regulation shirts and socks and extra government issue caps (of the right branch). But as Army and Navy provide full outfits for all except officers it is better not to send clothes unless specifically requested...